NEWS
By Jacques Kelly and Jacques Kelly,SUN STAFF | October 21, 1999
George Benedict Franz, a retired technical writer and an amateur photographer, died Monday of heart failure at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson. He was 86 and lived in Overlea. A technical writer for the old Glenn L. Martin Co. aircraft manufacturer, he joined the National Security Agency in 1964 and retired in 1979. His parents gave the Baltimore native his first Kodak Brownie camera when he was 10. He started taking pictures of his family, then photographed the Panama Canal when he served in the Army in the 1930s.
SPORTS
By Don Markus, The Baltimore Sun | February 17, 2013
The memories are usually fuzzy, clouded by decades of other diversions or simply by the fact that, even back then, you'd already forgotten by the next day that you'd played. Once thought to be the beer pong of its time, foosball is now more hardcore than fraternity chic, more a competitive sport than simply a reason to hoist a few. For those who play the game professionally, it is their life, if not quite their livelihood. For those looking to rediscover the game, this is not your father's (or mother's)
ENTERTAINMENT
By Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun | October 6, 2014
Baltimore's continually blossoming theater scene has another bud. Cohesion Theatre Company , to be based in the Highlandtown Arts and Culture District, will debut in November with a production of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus. " (Given the arrival of Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, the Bard appears to be on a roll this season in Baltimore.) The Cohesion ensemble also plans to stage two Baltimore premieres: Tom Horan's "Thirteen Dead Husbands" in March, Anna Moench's "The Pillow Book" next summer.
BUSINESS
By Julius Westheimer | July 6, 1992
About three weeks ago I phoned the suburban car dealer where I've bought a new model every four years, gave my name and asked the price of a new car. (I won't mention the dealer's name or brand.) The salesman pleasantly answered my question and we hung up. Considering sluggish auto business these days, I often wonder why he never called back to ask me to visit the showroom (I have all my repairs done there), show me the new model, take me for a ride, quote a trade-in, etc. (No sales calls from auto dealers now, please, although I welcome readers' comments about what seems to be widespread sales indifference these days.
FEATURES
By Mary Corey and Mary Corey,Sun Staff Writer | May 22, 1995
On the steamy second floor of Adrian's Book Cafe, strangers fan themselves and talk aimlessly about the unexpected burst of summer heat. It's all small talk, subterfuge really, for what's truly on their minds. Those gathered here - from the clean-cut Catonsville couple to the ribald divorcee - harbor one unyielding thought: Sex.Before the night ends, they will speak of it. The secret urgencies and cries of love, rain-swept sheets and ripening fruit. The great beast within? It will come out, in conversation at least, and the unleashing will make them laugh and fidget, stare dreamily at the ceiling tile and applaud - out of relief and satisfaction - when it's over.
NEWS
By Carl Schoettler and Carl Schoettler,SUN STAFF | July 22, 2004
Soaring, joyous music filled New Shiloh Baptist Church yesterday for the funeral of Nathan M. Carter Jr. -- much as he had planned it. The Morgan State University Choir that he molded, directed and loved for 34 years brought the congregation to its feet, singing and clapping with their first hymn, "Rise, Shine, Give God the Glory." Nathan Carter died Thursday of pancreatic cancer at age 68 after a prolonged illness. He had made the Morgan choir an internationally renowned and award-winning organization.